Monika Herceg (born in Sisak, Croatia, 1990) won the 2017 Goran Award for Young Poets for her debut manuscript, Početne koordinate/Initial Coordinates, which was published in 2018 and receiving several awards, including the Kvirin Award (for young poets), the Slavic Award for the best debut, & the international Bridges of Struga Award. Her next books were Lovostaj/The Closed Season (also winning awards) (2019), & Cile tous tension (selected pomes), pub. in France (2019). In late 2020 she won a dramatic competition and had a play premiered in Zagreb during December, 2020. She is also a coeditor of the Croatian literary magazine Tema. She makes her GobQ debut with several poems published in parallel text, in Croatian, English, Spanish, Lithaunian, Russian, Finnish, Portuguese, and Tagalog: zmijske smrti/snake deaths/Gyvačių mirtys/смерти змеи/kaarmeiden kuolemat/morte de cobra/muertes de serpientes/Ahas ng kamatayan; nasljedne bolesti/ hereditary diseases/enfermedades hereditarias /arfgengir sjukdomar/ doencas hereditarias/perinnoelliset sairaudet; sitne smrti/tiny deaths/маленькие смерти/muertes diminutas; Lisica/fox/Refur/zorro; zečje smrti/rabbit deaths muertes del conejo/Kamatayan ng mga kuneho
